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The specially designed Health Outreach Bus features a fully equipped nurse's office, a confidential space for HIV and STI (sexually transmitted infections) testing, and a hospitality area to greet clients with coffee, hot chocolate, and lemonade. The Bus visits underserved Chicago communities six days a week on a regular schedule, including East Garfield Park, Douglas Park, Humboldt Park, South Shore, Pilsen, and New City.
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Street Outreach Programs
Mobile Health Care
The Street Medicine Program brings free health care, survival supplies, and support directly to individuals who have the most difficulty accessing traditional services. Regularly visiting encampments, expressway viaducts, and street corners across the city, a Nurse Practitioner, Case Manager, and Street Medicine Outreach Professional first address immediate health needs, then link individuals to case management and medical homes.
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Mobile Health Care
Street Outreach Programs
YOT's Outreach Case Managers connect with clients across the city and link them with safe housing, education, employment, and other resources as well as providing compassionate support. In addition to making a regular stop with the Youth Outreach Van in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood every Thursday evening, Team members visit libraries, courthouses, coffee shops, and other locations where young people experiencing homelessness often congregate.
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Street Outreach Programs
Homeless Youth
Transitional Case/Care Management
The Nonviolence Chicago Street Outreach teams advocate for the community. They provide food and toiletries and conduct well-being checks when needed. To help communities take back space where violence has occurred, they host events creating safe spaces and building relationships with neighbors.
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Street Outreach Programs
Provides the following for homeless individuals in the area:
- Food (meals and snacks).
- Toiletries.
- First aid.
- Underwear.
- Socks.
- Winter coats.
- Blankets.
- Connection to community resources.
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Street Outreach Programs
Outreach Programs
Packed Lunches/Dinners
Volunteer Opportunities
Personal/Grooming Supplies
Winter Clothing
LPCS provides weekly outreach and drop-in supportive services (showers, laundry, clothing, toiletries, meals, referrals, and case management) to individuals who are currently experiencing street-based homelessness.
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Homeless Drop In Centers
Street Outreach Programs
Ignite's SCOPe (Street and Community Outreach Program) offers support to youth ages 14 to 24in the south and southwest areas of Chicago to build relationships with young people experiencing homelessness, connect them to community resources and the full array of Ignite programs, meet their immediate needs, and provide crisis intervention.
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Street Outreach Programs
Through Good Neighbors Field Outreach, teams of staff and volunteers deliver toiletries, clothing, and food to individuals experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing homelessness. On various days during the week, teams connect with people residing on the streets in the Near North neighborhood to listen, hand out daily living essentials, and direct people to the resources they may need.
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Street Outreach Programs
Habilitative Systems, Inc. provides community-based outreach, mental health, substance abuse, case management, and housing services. Services include screening, assessment, linkage, and referrals to appropriate levels of care for homeless adults. The program's goal is to reduce homelessness, and recidivism and stabilize support systems.
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Street Outreach Programs
The Project for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) Program, funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health, provides community-based outreach, mental health, substance abuse, case management and other support services, as well as a limited set of housing services.
Outreach navigators provide community outreach for those individuals living unsheltered in the Quad Cities. They are liaisons with local businesses and law enforcement to address concerns and make contact with persons living on the streets. The outreach team provides emergency supplies such as water, hygiene products, blankets, and referrals to appropriate services.
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Street Outreach Programs
- Street-based aid to homeless and street youth; includes survival aid, education, and connection to emergency shelter. Entry to emergency shelter is through Project Oz staff only.
- Agency outreach staff visit shelters and habitations to seek out homeless youth who need assistance with job attainment, re-entry to school, connection to GED or vocational programs, or obtaining housing.
- Individual counseling is available at the youth's site or at the Project Oz office.
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Street Outreach Programs
The Nonviolence Chicago Street Outreach teams advocate for the community. They provide food and toiletries and conduct well-being checks when needed. To help communities take back space where violence has occurred, they host events creating safe spaces and building relationships with neighbors.
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Street Outreach Programs
The Nonviolence Chicago Street Outreach teams advocate for the community. They provide food and toiletries and conduct well-being checks when needed. To help communities take back space where violence has occurred, they host events creating safe spaces and building relationships with neighbors.
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Street Outreach Programs
Northwest Compass services include intake and referrals, crisis intervention, solution-focused case management, street outreach, individual financial counseling, and money management classes, career coaching and job readiness, and more to alleviate hardships and allow clients to become stable and stay empowered in their everyday lives.
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Street Outreach Programs
Supported Employment
Personal Financial Counseling
The Thresholds Homeless Outreach Program was established in 1989 to provide assertive outreach, linkage to primary and psychiatric care, and resource referral to persons experiencing homelessness with serious mental illnesses. The program employs the skills of licensed clinical social workers on the streets, in shelters, and in any other location where people who are homeless may be found.
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Street Outreach Programs
Featherfist, Inc. offers street outreach specifically on the south side streets of Chicago. They work to form relationships that can help break the cycle of homelessness.
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Transitional Case/Care Management
Homeless People
Street Outreach Programs
Housing Forward works with individuals and families who are unsheltered and help them transition to supportive housing. Street Outreach Specialists connect with individuals by addressing basic needs such as food, water, personal hygiene kits, and clothing. As trust and relationship is built, staff members assess the needs of unsheltered individuals and connect them to case management, supportive services, and referrals.Diversion services help individuals and families who are facing homelessness to avoid emergency shelters or living on the street. This program provides immediate case management and support to help households rely on their existing strengths and support network.
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Street Outreach Programs
Homeless Diversion Programs
Offers coordinated assessments to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or are at-risk. Comprehensive services include:
- Day Resource Center:
Offers assessment for services and case management for people experiencing homelessness. Provides counseling, a mailing address, basic needs and hygiene products.
- Emergency Overnight Shelter (Open October 1 through April 30)
Offers a temporary place for people to sleep every night from October to April. Clients receive dinner, breakfast in the morning, and a sack lunch to take with them.
- Outreach Program:
Provides outreach to individuals who are experiencing homelessness but are resistant to services. Offers supportive services in their current environment.
- Supportive Housing:
Offers permanent housing for individuals with mental illnesses. Provides 24/7 supportive services on-site by clinical professionals.
- Prevention and Diversion Program:
Offers case management services for people who are on the verge of homelessness.
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Street Outreach Programs
Community Support Team: Assists with preventing homelessness, increases job, social, and living skills, and assists with obtaining benefits (Social Security, Medical, etc.).
Street Outreach: Supports individuals experiencing homelessness by encouraging engagement with approriate mental health services.
Crisis Line of Fox Valley: Call and text line providing individuals with support and referrals.
Victims Services: Assistance to victims of violent crime and/or trauma. Provides crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and referrals.
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Crime Victim Support
Street Outreach Programs
Crisis Intervention Hotlines/Helplines
Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams
Outreach and services to those living without shelter. Services include a team travelling throughout the county looking for unsheltered persons to connect them to services.
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Street Outreach Programs
Housing and Residential:
Supportive housing offering a variety of community-based options for persons with serious mental illnesses and co-occurring substance use disorders, including those exiting homelessness.
Homeless Outreach:
Provides outreach, linkage to primary and psychiatric care, and resource referral to persons experiencing homelessness with serious mental illnesses. The program employs the skills of licensed clinical social workers on the streets, in shelters, and any other location where people who are homeless may be found.
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Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Street Outreach Programs